Word: labored
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Appelfeld is one himself. Born in 1932 in a part of Rumania that now belongs to the Soviet Union, he was sent, with his father, to a labor camp in the Ukraine. The eight-year-old boy escaped and, during three years reminiscent of Jerzy Kosinki's The Painted Bird, roamed the countryside in the guise of a shepherd. He lived mainly alone and in silence, fearing what the peasants might do to him if they learned that he was a fugitive Jew. After the war, he made his way to a displaced-persons camp in Italy...
...grow old. Far from fading away, the elderly seem to be brightening on the horizons of the mind, the family, the workplace, the community. Everywhere their role and presence are changing. Politicians rush to court the gray vote. Corporations and charities plumb a deeply skilled, reliable labor resource among the used-to-be and not-yet-ready-to-be retired. Madison Avenue prepares to tap a vast, long-ignored market. Where once the image of the elderly was of frailty, there are now energy and curiosity, courses to take, choirs to join, diets to break, children to counsel, battles...
Melting in a warmth toastier than a chinook was a child-labor flap ignited by cross parents of the gala's youngest stars. In rehearsal, the youngsters worked up to twelve-hour days on short rations (sometimes just hot chocolate, a ham sandwich and a butter tart), although David Roberts, 12, reacted cheerfully: "Practice makes perfect. What I'll remember is the glory...
...September 1984, which earned him a seat in Botha's Cabinet. When Botha learned last August that Hendrickse intended to block the postponement, he warned him that he could not do so and remain in the Cabinet. Hendrickse resigned. He is convinced that Botha is trying to split the Labor Party and replace him with a more pliant leader. Says he: "Carrots have been dangled...
...Hendrickse retains control and keeps saying no to Botha, Parliament will be dissolved in September 1989. Hendrickse is confident that Labor will fare well at the polls. "Our stance has enhanced our position in the colored community," he says. "We are no longer seen as collaborators with the system." But Botha is famously intolerant of opposition and is unlikely to repeal the Group Areas Act. Hendrickse's opinion of the prospects for reform this year: "Bleak...